Paper-match machine



1, MOSC INI. PAPER MAT CH MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED DEC- t9 I918 RENEWED OCT. 7. l9l9.

Patel ltedr J an. 13,. 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JdHN MOSCINI, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PAPER-MATCH MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1920.

Application filed December 19, 1918, Serial No. 267,476. Renewed October 7. 1919. Serial No. 329,083.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L-Jonn Moscnzr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Match Machines,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to machines for making matches from paper or (paper board, and has-for its object to provi e apparatus which is simplified in construction as compared with prior machines of this nature and is 'capab e of making a practical paper match more cheaply than heretofore.

The invention contemplates the cutting of a strip of paper board or other suitable material into transverse fingers or match splints which are left connected to one margin of the strip so that they may be carried therewith through successive operations of finishin said splints, after which'they are-cut from the ma rgins. as complete matches. The intermediate operations may include treating the fingers or splints with hot wax, rounding the'corners thereof while they are soft from such treatment, and coating the ends with striking substance.

- The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying-drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more specifically defined in' the claims at the end of the specification.

In the" accompanying drawing, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate correwonding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a, machine embodying the invention, the same being shown in two sup lemental parts one below the other because it is too long to go on the sheet.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cutting rolls.

Fig. 3 is a detailed viewshowing the roller for turnin down thefingers or splints to dip their ree ends into the striking substance.

Fig. 4 is a. detailed view of a pair of the cutting disks for severing the finished matches from the mar ins of the strip.

Fig. 5 is a detailed p an view of a portion of the strip to illustrate the manner of cutting the middle portion thereof into intermeshing fingers attached to the opposite m rr ins of th stri and State of Neware detailed fragmentary means (not shown) and the stretches of the strip between the several pairs of rolls, etc.,

may be suitably supported where necessary or desirable although not illustrated.

At one end of the frame 1 a roll of paper board 3 is mounted in suitable bearings 2, and said paperboard is fed from the roll thereof between a pair of cutting rolls 4 and 5 mounted on shafts 6 and 7 res ectively, journaled suitably farther along tie frame. The cutting roll 4 has longitudinal cutting ribs :8 on its periphery a ternatin with grooves '9, while the roll 5 as simi air outtin ribs 10 alternatin with grooves 11 which correspond with t e ribs and grooves on the roll 4 and are staggered therewith. The peripheries of the rolls 4 and 5 are tanlgent or just meet so that as the strip 3 asses etwaen them it is cut into transverse gers or splints 12. a

The rolls 4 and 5 are arranged as illustrated in Figs Q, 6 and 7 with the grooves of each terminating at a distance from one margin of the strip and the ends of the ribs cooperating with the ends of the grooves, as at 36., to cut alternate fin ers or splints from each margin of the stri ut leave the others connected thereto, as 5 Owing to the fact that the fingers are retained in bonnection with the margins of the strip, they may be fed along as an integral strip through-the succeeding o erations.

After leavin the cutting r01 5, the strip with the partia ly severed fingers or splints 12 passes over a guide roller 13 and then down into a pan or receptacle 15 containing hot wax 16. The strip is submerged in the hot wax by passing below a guide roller 14 in the pan, and from said roller the strip passes upward again and over another guide roller 17, after which it passes between a pair ofshaping rolls 18 and, 19 which are mounted on shaftsZO and 21. respectively, suitably journaled in the frame 1. The pe ripheries of these rolls are fluted and tangent peripheries of the cutown also in Fig. 5.

observed that as twee'npairs of are mounted on sha with the connected at the discharge end iHaving thus described my invention. what while the roll 19 has similar grooves 23 separated by correspondingly shaped edges 25,

5 which register with the edges 24 on the roll 18. The shaping rolls" serve to round the corners of the fin ers or splints so that they will conform to the usualshape of the ordinary match, as indicated at 26. It will be the splints pass between immediately after coming the shaping rolls from the-bath of hot wax, they are soft and and can be easily shaped as described.

The strip next passes over a pan or re- 5 ceptacle 29 in which the liquid striking substapce 30 s contained, and the fingers or splints 26 are turned downtd dip their free ends into said substance by means of a roll 27 which is mounted on an axle o r shaft 28 20 suitably journaled in the frame of the machine. Said roll 27 extends below the path ,of the strip over the pan 29, as illustrated in Figs? 1 and 3, and is of less width than the length of the fingers or splints, so that 25 it successively depresses them until their free ends dip into the striking substance, After passing from below the roll 27-, the-splints or fingers rise again to the plane of the mar-. gins of the str1p,"and are finally fed becuttin tively," suitably journaled in the framel. These cutting disks, of which it will be understood there are two pairs, one in line ends of the fingers or splints on each margin of the strip, serve to sever said splints or fingers, from the mar.- and discharge the same as completed iniiii dual matches 26 with striking caps 31 of the machine.

*Clfllm as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent of the United States is 1. In a machine of the character described,

the combination with means for cutting a strip of material into transversely arran ed mtermeshing fingers alternate ones of Which are joined to opposite uncut margins of the strip, of means for bending down the free end of said fingers for receiving coatings of striking substance while the uncut margins of the strip travel in a horizontal fiplane, and means for finally cutting said ngers from the margins of 2. In a'machine of the character described,

the combination with means for cutting ,a-

strip of material into transversely arranged fingers connected'to one margin of said strip,

of means for bending down said fingers of means for ing their free means for finally cutting. said fingers disks 32 and 33 which ts 34 and 35, respecthe strip to produce 55 finished individual matches.

the strip.

4. In a machine of the character described, a

the combination with means for cutting a strip of material into transversely arranged fingers connected to one margin of the strip, passing said fingers through a bath of hotwax, means for shaping said fingers with rounded corners immediately after coming mm the hot wax bath, means for turning down said fingers along the line of their connections to the'margms for coatends with striking substance,, and from the margin ofthe strip.

5. In a machine-of the character described, a pair of cutting rolls arranged one above the other and having staggered'axially extending cutting ribs alternating with simi larly arranged grooves corresponding to the ribs on the opposite roll, and means for passing a strip of material between said rolls for cutting the same transversel match splints, the peripheries ot sai rolls determined by the outer faces ofthe ribs being arranged to meet for the purpose specified;

6. In a maohine'of the character described, the combination with means for cutting a strip of material transversely into fingers connected to one margin of the strip, of a receptacle for liquid striking substance, means for passing said strip and fingers over said receptacle, and a roll extending below the path of said strip over the receptacle and adapted to turn to dip their free nds into stance.

7. In a machine of the character described, the combination with means for cutting a strip of material transversely into fingers alternately connectedto opposite margins of the strip, of a receptacle to contain liquid striking substance, means for passing said strip and fingers over said receptacle, and a roll extending below the path of the margins of the strip and of less width than said fingers for turning down the latter simultaneously from both margins to dip their free ends into the striking substance.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN MOSCINI.

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